Posted by timotist on 11/29/06 19:29

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "Mike Kujbida" wrote ...
> > No surprise there as the Sonys are designed for DVCAM and miniDV.
> > You need to make a menu change for your Panasonic deck to be able to
> > play miniDV tapes as the default is, of course, DVCPRO. I just had a
> > look through the operating manual for this deck and it covers it on
> > page 29. It's #107 under the Operations Menu (setting 0000 is the
> > default for DVCPRO, 0001 is DV mode and 0002 is DVCAM mode). HTH.
> > Remember to switch it back to DVCPRO after you're done capturing.
>
> Is that completely compatible? IIRC, the previous discussion
> mentioned that they couldn't get the audio tracks out via Firewire
> or somesuch.

The deck plays miniDV tapes just fine, but produces output only on the
analog output. I hooked a monitor on it and it's okay, i just can't get
any data on the firewire ports.
Setting it back won't be a problem, poor thing's never seen a DVCPRO
tape in it's life, the company masters everything on DVCAM and miniDV
(guess purchasing a DVCPRO deck wasn't the brightest idea...).
Anyways, gonna try setting it up tomorrow, see what happens, and post
the results.
Thanks for the ideas so far.

Tamas

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